Posted on 11/24/2015 10:02:49 PM PST by amorphous
For the better part of a year, Turkey remained on the sidelines in the "fight" against ISIS.
Then, on July 20, a powerful explosion ripped through the town of Suruc. 33 people were killed including a number of Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) and Socialist Youth Associations Federation (SGDF) members who planned to assist in the rebuilding of Kobani.
The attack was promptly attributed to Islamic State who took "credit" for the tragedy the next day.
To be sure, the attack came at a rather convenient time for President Tayyip Erdogan. A little over a month earlier, the ruling AKP party lost its absolute parliamentary majority in part due to a strong showing at the ballot box for the pro-Kurdish (and PKK-aligned) HDP. What happened in the wake of the Suruc bombing was nothing short of a largely successful attempt on Erdogan's part to use fear and violence to scare the electorate into restoring AKP's dominance in snap elections that took place earlier this month.
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You are contradicting yourself.
Russia wants high oil prices. Obama and China do not.
no contradiction. You didn’t read what I wrote. Of course Russia wants high oil prices but given the increased production from the US and from SA, that isn’t happening, is it?
High oil is a Petro Dollar policy.
Low oil is not...it contradicts Petro Dollar.
” Oh no, not Shiâia...Obamaâs dog is named Suni. “
Does he plan to eat him ?
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The petrodollar isn’t a policy, it’s an arrangment and the actual cost of oil is not really a function of the arrangment. Oil must be purchased with US federal reserve notes whether the cost of oil is high or low. The actual price is irrelevant as far as the arrangment is concerned. What is important from a western capitalist’s/banker’s persepctive is that foreign countries must maintain large reserves of US federal resere notes in order to purchase oil.
“lets not forget the reason for this is are president is a Shia Muslim....for the last 7 years his policy has been to take power away from Sunni Muslims and to give it to Shia Muslims. the president has taken sides in religious in fighting of the Muslim religion.
this is only my uneducated opinion on the mater.”
You have it backwards , he is a Sunni .
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Who is in charge of the c.i.a.?
Here’s a thought: Destroy ISIS. Then pull out 100% from the Middle East. Stop choosing sides. Stop the damage we have done. Let the rest destroy each other or make their own peace.
Restrict immigration from those nations to zero. Protect our borders and ports.
Produce our own oil. Pay more for energy. But stop throwing defense money and personnel into the Middle East.
Under the last 3 presidents, we’ve done only harm.
And we are BROKE.
We are now friends and supporters of the 911 terrorsists
That's retarded...
think about this as far as the Muslim religion is concerned dogs are unclean.
Oil purchases in petro dollars are down 60% since Obama took Office.
Which is to say: no one cares about any mythical petro dollar policy.
No one. Certainly not Russians.
Obama thinks religions are mere nostalgia. Gay sex is unclean under Islamic law...Obama thinks that is outdated.
He’s getting his geopolitics from a fantasy movie.
Why did it take Russia to destroy ISIS’s oil tankers when we had been flying over there for a year and a half? I imagine our pilots were asking the same question.
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Bill and Hillary will never understand their heads will roll the minute they aren’t useful anymore.
The representative from Turkey met with ambassador Stevens in Benghazi right before the terrorist attack. He had to drive through terrorist roadblocks to get out of the area.
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